User’s perspective towards the utilization of Pedestrian Bridges in Selangor / Shazleza Emira Suhaimi and Noraini Md Zain

Pedestrian bridges are one of the facilities provided for the pedestrians in Malaysia, each state in Malaysia is provided with pedestrian bridges to avoid unfortunate events such as accidents towards the pedestrians. Although the pedestrian bridges are provided, some of the pedestrians still does not utilize it well due to various reasons which resulted to pedestrian’s accidents. The aim of this research is to promote the utilization of pedestrian bridges in Selangor. The objectives of this research which is (1) to identify the factors affecting pedestrian bridges utilisation and (2) to suggest ways to improve the utilization has achieved. The data collected from 51 respondents of pedestrians in Selangor regarding their opinion on factors hindering pedestrians from utilizing the pedestrian bridges and their suggestions of ways to improve the utilization of pedestrian bridges. Furthermore, the main factors and main suggestions have been identified in this research are (1) human behaviour, (2) location of pedestrian bridges, (3) safety features of pedestrian bridges and (4) pedestrian bridge’s design. From the data analysed, this research has found that the most ranked factors and suggestions to the least, where both highest ranked factor and suggestion are related to the location which ranked first highest. It is suggested the study on the difference between utilization at specific location of pedestrian bridges with other certain location of pedestrian bridges.